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PublisherKingsley Publishers, Jessica

ISBN-101853028428

ISBN-139781853028427

eBay Product ID (ePID)1824100

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Book TitleViolence : Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicViolence in Society

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science

AuthorJames Gilligan

Book SeriesForensic Focus Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN99-041646

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsJames Gilligan has written a stunning book about violence. As a psychiatrist who has spent twenty-five years of his professional life treating men who committed murder, Gilligan draws poignantly on his work with prisoners to help us understand what motivates desperate men. In the end, he offers a compelling psychoanalytic explanation of violence while calling on society to take social, economic and cultural measures to help prevent the 'deadly epidemic' from spreading.

Dewey Decimal303.6

Table Of ContentPrologue: violence as tragedy. Part 1 The pathology of violence: visits to hell - entering the world of the prison; dead souls; violent action as symbolic language - myth, ritual and tragedy. Part 2 The ''germ theory'' of violence: how to think about violence; shame - the emotions and morality of violence. Part 3 The epidemiology of violence: the symbolism of punishment; how to increase the rate of violence - and why; the deadliest form of violence in poverty; the biology of violence; culture, gender and violence - ''we are not women''. Epilogue - civilization and its malcontents. Acknowledgements.

SynopsisJames Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. He reveals the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who not only kill other people, but also destroy themselves rather than suffer shame and loss of self-respect.He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful ......, James Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. He reveals the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who not only kill other people, but also destroy themselves rather than suffer shame and loss of self-respect. He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful behaviour, and argues that conventional punitive legal and penal systems which are based on notions of justice and retribution perpetuate violent behaviour. He was called in to the Massachusetts prison system because of the high rates of suicides and murders within state prisons there; when he left these rates had dropped almost to zero. This keenly argued and ground-breaking book is essential reading for everyone touched by violence, and all those who are working to prevent it and its consequences, James Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. He reveals the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who not only kill other people, but also destroy themselves rather than suffer shame and loss of self-respect.He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful behaviour, and argues that conventional punitive legal and penal systems which are based on notions of justice and retribution perpetuate violent behaviour. He was called in to the Massachusetts prison system because of the high rates of suicides and murders within state prisons there; when he left these rates had dropped almost to zero. This keenly argued and ground-breaking book is essential reading for everyone touched by violence, and all those who are working to prevent it and its consequences.

LC Classification NumberHM886.G55 1999